Sunday will never be the same... (3 Viewers)

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Nothing Else Matters

AA/FD From Dallas it's the "Rat Patrol" with the late Larry Ladue in the seat

BB/FC Who says a BB/FC can't do a fire burnout. Zig & Deitz alky flopper, with (I think) Frank
Harris in the seat

AA/FC "King Fish" Larry Arnold in the seat

AA/FC It's the 1970s and it's 240 Gordie Bonin

AA/FD The late great Danny Ongais

AA/FD & AA/FC Photo shoot, King & Marshall

AA/FD The absolutely gorgeous "Gotelli Speed Shop" fuel dragster hanging out in a parking
lot somewhere, many many moons ago

AA/FD No ID on this great wheels up, tire smoking pass

AA/FD It's the "Ramchagers" at Bakersfield

AA/FC From Washington State, it's the "Green Elephant" nitro burning funny car

 

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A little of this a little of that


Featuring those wacky racers in AA/FD, AA/FC and AA/FA


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Nitro 1979, kinda cheap back then. Well maybe not that cheap

 

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Great shot of a wheel standing Gas Ronda.

 

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Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)

AA/FC Rodney Flournoy first flopper. X-Jerry Ruth car

AA/FC It's the "Shady Glenn" Jim Adolph in the seat

AA/FC 1981 at Boise. Mike Miller in the seat "Olympia Beer" Mustang body flopper

AA/FC It's the 1970s. Jerry Ruth, 64 Funny Cars, Seattle

AA/FD-AA/FC in the lanes at Pomona

AA/FD No ID, I don't think the AA/FD got out of the bleach box?

AA/FD No ID on this fantastic smokey pass at Lions

AA/FC Ron Leaf owner with Frank Mancuso in the seat

AA/FC Stan Bowman "Ohio State Patrol" fuel funny car

AA/FD Bruce Wheeler "Wheeler Dealer" from the East Coast out West in SoCal. OCIR

 

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You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way

AA/FC Dick Harrell in the seat. Camaro body nitro funny

AA/FD Anderson Bros. & Bernstein, with a young Kenny Bernstein on fire in the lights

AA/FD Back in the day, AA/FD got thirsty

AA/FD No ID, but for sure having a bad day

AA/FC Jerry Jefferson "Land Rush" Plymouth Arrow body nitro flopper

AA/FC Tom Hoover in the seat of his pretty "Showtime" fuel funny car at Seattle

AA/FC Dale Creasy and his Ford Mustang body funny car

AA/FD Gerry Glenn getting the tires hot and sticky

AA/FC From the State of New York, it's Jim Wemett "Wombat Racing" funny car

Does this old video have better sound than NHRA TV?

 

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I Still Dream You

AA/FC Remember back in the day when you got your favorite drag rag in the mail or at the
grocery store and it had a bitchin center spread you could hang on your bedroom wall?

AA/FC "Jungle Jim" has the laundry out, after another pass down the 1320

AA/FC It's Al Bergler's "Motown Shaker" Ford Mustang body flopper

AA/FD SoCal's Don Ewald, photo shoot

AA/FD No ID, but for sure, just coming into the lights. Check out his hand going for the
parachute lever

AA/FD A nitro dragster and a pretty girl, what else do you need? Is that a Playboy Bunny on
her shirt?

AA/FC Jim Dunn. Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends at Irwindale

AA/FC Magazine ad for Beach City Chevrolet

AA/FD It's Mike Kuhl's AA/FD with Billy Tidwell in the seat

AA/FD No ID. Having a bad day

 

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Wish You Were Here

AA/FC No ID. A couple of Monza body nitro funny cars from "Across the pond"

AA/FC Back to the USA, another Monza body flopper, this time Ron Colson in the seat

AA/FD Gary Beck taking on Garlits at Seattle

AA/FD Great photo of Herm Petersen at speed, at Indy

AA/FD Gerry "The Hunter" Glenn in the seat

AA/FC Gary Burgin airing it out at Lions, it didn't end well (see below)

AA/FC Future track operator, Charlie Allen in the seat

AA/FC Here is another fantastic magazine center spread. This one from Popular Hot Rodding

 

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Time Passages

AA/FD From SoCal it's Randy Allison in the seat

AA/FC Here you go kid's, some early funny car action. Featuring "Dyno" Don Nicholson

AA/FD When push starting your AA/FD goes wrong

Just a little bit more of the yellow stuff, so I can go really quick and fast or go out in a
blaze of glory

AA/FD Run to the fence kid's, we have AA/FD up next

AA/FC Floppers in the lanes at Pomona

AA/FC Gas Ronda having a really bad day. I believe this was the career-ending fire

AA/FC Remember when drag rags would do X-Ray Photography. This one from the greatest
drag racing magazine ever, Drag Racing USA. Gary Burgin in the seat. April 1972 issue

AA/FD From Kansas it's the "K.C. Bomber" with the late Dale Wilch in the seat

AA/FD "Hot Tuna" the late John "Tarzan" Austin sitting behind the butterfly steering wheel

 

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AA/FD From SoCal it's Randy Allison in the seat
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AA/FC Here you go kid's, some early funny car action. Featuring "Dyno" Don Nicholson
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AA/FD When push starting your AA/FD goes wrong
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Just a little bit more of the yellow stuff, so I can go really quick and fast or go out in a
blaze of glory
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AA/FD Run to the fence kid's, we have AA/FD up next
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AA/FC Floppers in the lanes at Pomona
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AA/FC Gas Ronda having a really bad day. I believe this was the career-ending fire
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AA/FC Remember when drag rags would do X-Ray Photography. This one from the greatest
drag racing magazine ever, Drag Racing USA. Gary Burgin in the seat
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AA/FD From Kansas it's the "K.C. Bomber" with the late Dale Wilch in the seat
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AA/FD "Hot Tuna" the late John "Tarzan" Austin sitting behind the butterfly steering wheel

good old Made in USA Nitro

 

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And Now You're Gone

AA/FC Mickey Thompson with Henry Harrison in the seat

AA/FD Rick Ramsey near lane, taking on Pete Robinson

AA/FD No ID, what a fantastic photo at Lions

AA/FD It's Chris Karamesines at York US30 Dragway

AA/FD "The Goo$e" getting the slicks hot and sticky

AA/FC From SoCal it's Andy Clary in his Ford Maverick body nitro flopper

AA/FC Don Cook's 1970 Chevy Corvette Stingray, not sure who is in the seat?

AA/FD Just another great magazine center spread, Tom McEwen in the seat

AA/FC Ron Potter in the seat "Golden Nugget" plastic fantastic

AA/FC The late great Jack Chrisman in his nitro funny car

 

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The Story In Your Eyes

AA/FD From the pages of Drag Racing USA magazine, April 1972. Gotta give the flamboyant drag racing promoter
Bill Doner credit, he did thing's his own way. Here is early 70s L.A. porn star Rene Bond as your OCIR Race Queen.
In 1973 he would bring porn star Linda Lovelase to Seattle (Northwest National Open) saw her a few times that
weekend. As a 14 year old kid, very cool.

AA/FD It's Jim & Alison Lee, with Tom Raley in the seat

AA/FD "The Snake" waiting for the push start

AA/FC Great artsy photo. John Lombardo in the seat

AA/FD On the rollers, with George "The Stone Age Man"
Hutcheson in the seat

AA/GD Here is one for the Top Gas dragster fans

BB/FC One bad ass BB/FC from back in the day. "Wild Wilfred" Boutilier

AA/FC Night time is the right time, for nitro floppers

AA/FC Early funny car action from the "Flying Dutchman" long smoky burnout

AA/FC The late Danny Ongais in the seat

 

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Leftover's and a few other odds and ends

AA/FD Fantastic night shot, with the late C.J. "Pappy" Hart looking on

AA/FD It's 1971 and the changing of the guard. Carl Olson near lane taking on James Warren

AA/FA The late 1960s and a couple of hard charging AA/FA looking for the traps at OCIR

AA/FC From the pages of Hot Rod Magazine

AA/FC Those fancy-pants funny car drivers, get all the chicks

AA/FD Nothing better from late 1963 to September 1966 "The Surfers"

AA/FD It's "Kansas John" Wiebe bolting on a new pair of slicks

AA/FD "The Syndicate" very cool, but it was just to heavy to run any good numbers

AA/FD Dusty Rhodes having a bad day

BB/FC From Pennsylvania it's the Chevy Monza body BB/FC of Joe Amato at Beeline Dragway. Mesa, Arizona

 

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No introduction needed here. The original-BUG-"Jungle" Pam Hardy

 

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Living in the Past

AA/FC The late Ezar Boggs lighting up at Tulsa in the "Moby Dick"

AA/FC Here are a couple of Moby Dick hat pins from my collection. Top picture original. Bottom, new tooling
from a few years ago

AA/FC Here is a pin you don't see. The Cassidy Bros. 1977 Monza body flopper from the Eastern Seaboard

AA/FC The "Rapid Transit" Dodge Dart of Mert Littlefield

AA/FD Having a bad day in the shut down area

AA/FD Vance Hunt and his driver Watus Simpson at Bakersfield 1971

Nothing's more sad, a dead Christmas Tree

AA/FD Geez do you think this photographer wanted a close up of Garlits burnout

AA/FC No truer words have been spoken!

 

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A Hazy Shade of Winter

AA/FC "The Hawaiian" not sure who is in the seat? Div 7 #7720 is Gary Southern, pretty sure Gary
never drove the car. Could be Butch Maas?

AA/FD The late Kenny Safford in the seat

AA/FC Photo shoot with Harry and Raymond. Gone but not forgotten

AA/FD Chuck Flores and his "Gotelli Speed Shop" digger

AA/FC I don't think JJ ran the Corvette body flopper, for a extended period of time?

AA/FC "The Shoe" airing it out

AA/FD No ID. Great, coming at you shot

AA/FD From across the pond, it's Dennis Priddle

AA/FD No ID. But for sure, having a bad day

AA/FD Jeep Hampshire sitting behind the butterfly steering wheel